Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!emory!dixie.com!eeh From: eeh@Dixie.Com (Ed Howland) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: new windows OS Message-ID: <9383@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> Date: 8 Apr 91 23:40:36 GMT References: <1991Apr5.215151.5455@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Apr6.233850.5871@cc.helsinki.fi> Organization: Dixie Communications Services Lines: 19 tmottonen@cc.helsinki.fi writes: In article <1991Apr5.215151.5455@hubcap.clemson.edu>, cballen@hubcap.clemson.edu (charles allen) writes: > Why not? Why not replace DOS with a full operating system for WINDOWS > that can still run DOS apps from a shell? > > Yes, what I'm talking about sounds like OS2, but I want it for ALL > machines, not just microchannel. Plus, it better not be as buggy. I have heard a rumor that DOS 6.0 is supposed to be just that. But who knows? Its a decent idea. Ed. -- Ed Howland Internet: eeh@dixie.com uucp: ...{uunet,emory}!rsiatl!eeh "I am expressly forbidden to offer any kind of warranty. This covers ideas, thoughts, opinions, or just plain gibberish. They are only offered 'As is'."